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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A family grieves during a candlelight vigil for Charleston Hartfield at Police Memorial Park. Hartfield, an off-duty Las Vegas police officer, was killed Sunday during the mass shooting at a music festival across from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Sherri Camperchioli and Jordan Cassel, volunteers from Las Vegas, staple photos of the mass shooting victims on crosses artist Greg Zanis of Aurora, Ill., constructed. He drove across the country to install them on Las Vegas Boulevard to honor the people killed in the mass shooting. Zanis said he has created crosses for many national tragedies.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Jean Green Dunbar of Las Vegas plants shrubs at the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in the Arts District of Las Vegas Oct. 5. The garden is intended to help the city heal from the massacre that happened Sunday.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Law enforcement officers salute during a candlelight vigil for Charleston Hartfield at Police Memorial Park.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Police officers listen to speakers at a candlelight vigil for Charleston Hartfield, an off-duty Las Vegas police officer who was killed Sunday.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Veronica Hartfield wipes a tear from her son Ayzayah during a candlelight vigil at Police Memorial Park.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Jeanne Belez of Marysville, Ore. places a bouquet of flowers at a memorial on a median on Las Vegas Blvd. near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 4, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Mementos, candles and flowers are left at a makeshift memorial on a median on Las Vegas Blvd. near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 4, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Arizona Diamondbacks remember their former employee Christiana Duarte, who was killed this week in the Las Vegas shooting during pregame ceremonies of the National League Wild Card game on Oct. 4, 2017 in Phoenix, Ariz.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Crystal Fernandez, left, and Carmen Arias share a moment at a memorial that sprung up on a median on Las Vegas Blvd. near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 4, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Religious groups gather at a makeshift memorial on a median on Las Vegas Blvd. near the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Linda Proctor hugs Dr. Robert T. Baggott as her husband, Donnie Proctor, waits to the right during a memorial at Community Church of Vero Beach, Fla. on Oct. 4, 2017, for those who died in the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania arrive at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. . President Trump is planning on meeting victims of Sunday's mass shooting.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

With the lights of the Las Vegas Strip as a backdrop, people gathered on a vacant lot on Las Vegas Blvd. for a candlelight vigil in the memory of the victims of the Mandalay Bay mass shooting, Oct. 2, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People wait in line to give blood at United Blood Services in Las Vegas, Oct. 3, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Michael Kordich, 34, a firefighter with the San Bernardino County Fire Dept., performed CPR on a fellow concert goer who had been shot, before Kordich himself was shot in the arm during the Las Vegas massacre. He talks about the life-changing events from his hospital bed at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Oct. 3, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Sara Rivero, on right, with her mom Laura Rodriguez, in center and Gisell Rivera, her step mother, burn a candle at the memorial site on Las Vegas Blvd, for friends who died at the concert.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Members of the Las Vegas community pray during an emotional vigil for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting at Mountain Crest Park, Oct. 3, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People hug one another outside of the trauma center at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Oct. 3, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Matthew Edwards puts a teddy bear and flowers at the memorial site. When asked about his feelings he said "I cannot understand what has happened here... what would drive a man to do what he did"
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Law enforcement and members of the media gathered outside Stephen Paddock's home Oct. 2, 2017 in Mesquite, Nev.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

With the lights of the Las Vegas Strip as a backdrop, people gathered on a vacant lot on Las Vegas Blvd. for a candlelight vigil in the memory of the victims of the Mandalay Bay mass shooting, Oct. 2, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People gather in memory of the Las Vegas shooting victims outside of the Ascend Amphitheater during a vigil in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 2, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People gather at Trocadero plaza as the lights of the Eiffel tower are turned off, in Paris on Oct. 2, 2017. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said the Eiffel tower will turn off its lights to pay tribute to Las Vegas and Marseille victims.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

New York University students attend a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 2, 2017 in New York.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A Las Vegas metro police officer walks past balloons and flowers left on Las Vegas Blvd. on Oct. 2, 2017, two blocks from the Mandalay Bay Casino, where a gunman killed dozens and injured hundreds.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Investigators load a body from the scene of a mass shooting at a music festival near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

The American flag is at half-staff at the White House in Washington on Oct. 2, 2017. President Donald Trump ordered that flags be lowered at all government buildings to honor the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Tel Aviv's municipality building is lit with the colors of the American flag in solidarity with victims of Las Vegas shooting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 2, 2017.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People walks past flowers left on a pedestrian bridge overlooking Las Vegas Blvd. in Las Vegas on Oct. 2, 2017, two blocks from the Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino where a gunman killed dozens and injured hundreds of people attending a concert.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A group of women wait for their ride outside the Thomas & Mack center, which served as a refuge, following the mass shooting at the Route 91 music festival.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People hug and cry outside the Thomas & Mack Center. People who could not go to hotel-casinos that were closed after the shooting are temporarily staying at the center.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Broken windows are seen on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino after a lone gunman opened fired on the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A person takes cover at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

An injured person is tended to in the intersection of Tropicana Ave. and Las Vegas Boulevard after a mass shooting at a country music festival nearby on October 2, 2017 in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People are searched by Las Vegas police at the Tropicana Las Vegas during an active shooter situation on the Las Vegas Strip. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A wounded woman is moved outside the Tropicana during an active shooter situation on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A wounded woman is moved outside the Tropicana on a hotel baggage cart during an active shooter situation on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer stands in the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Ave. after a mass shooting at a country music festival nearby on October 2, 2017 in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

An ambulance leaves the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Ave. after a mass shooting at a country music festival nearby on October 2, 2017 in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

People take cover at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are reports of an active shooter around the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A police officer takes cover behind a police vehicle during a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Las Vegas shooting leaves more than 50 dead at Mandalay Bay

A family grieves during a candlelight vigil for Charleston Hartfield at Police Memorial Park. Hartfield, an off-duty Las Vegas police officer, was killed Sunday during the mass shooting at a music festival across from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino.

This October 2017 photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Force Investigation Team Report shows the view of Las Vegas Village from Mandalay Bay's room 32-135, part of the evidence images included on a preliminary report showing the interior of Stephen Paddock's 32nd floor room of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas.(Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, AP)

With those revelations, police announced they were closing their 10-month investigation without a definitive answer for why Paddock, a high-stakes gambler, amassed an arsenal of weapons and carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

"By all accounts, Stephen Paddock was an unremarkable man whose movements leading up to Oct. 1 didn't raise any suspicion," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. "An interview with his doctor indicated signs of a troubled mind, but no troubling behavior that would trigger a call to law enforcement."

Paddock left no manifesto or "even a note to answer questions" about his motive for a rampage that killed 58 people and injured more than 800 others, Lombardo said.

Brother thought he had mental illness

One of his brothers told investigators that he believed the gunman had a "mental illness and was paranoid and delusional." A doctor believed he may have had bipolar disorder, the report said.

Paddock's girlfriend said he had suddenly stopped being affectionate and constantly complained of being ill. Marilou Danley told investigators that he said doctors could not cure him but told him he had a "chemical imbalance."

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In its final report released Friday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department found Paddock acted alone and no one else will be charged, said Lombardo, the elected head of the agency.

Summary of Paddock's finances

The report included a summary of 14 of Paddock's bank accounts, which contained a total of $2.1 million in September 2015. Two years later, the amount had dropped to $530,000. He "wasn't as successful in the gambling as he was in the previous years," Lombardo said.

Investigators said Paddock paid more than $600,000 to casinos and over $170,000 to credit card companies. The analysis said he also made nearly $95,000 in firearms-related purchases.

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Hotel surveillance video shows Stephen Paddock going about the routine of moving luggage and playing slots in the days before he took the lives of 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (March 23)
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The report gave no other information about the casino purchases. High-rollers like Paddock are often given credit lines at casinos.

She told police that she accompanied Paddock to gun stores and gun shows and helped him set up a gun range in Nevada. Danley told authorities he tended to be obsessive when he dove into a new hobby, and she considered the behavior part of that same pattern, said Detective Trever Alsup, the lead investigator in the case.

Paddock's mother, Irene Hudson, told investigators she did not understand why her son would carry out an attack and believed he "must have developed some type of 'brain tumor,'" the report said.

This October 2017 file photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Force Investigation Team Report showing the interior of room 32-134 of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock's 32nd floor room of the Mandalay Bay hotel, an evidence imaged released as part of a preliminary report by Clark County sheriff.(Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, AP)

An autopsy did not find anything unusual with Paddock's physical condition, even after a microscopic brain examination by experts at Stanford University.

A brother, Eric Paddock, described his sibling as a "narcissist" who only cared about people he could benefit from.

Report releases 911 calls, video

The final details of the investigation came after police released 13 batches of investigative documents, 911 calls, police reports, witness statements and video over the last three months. They have illustrated chaos, heartbreak and heroism from first responders, concertgoers and family members.

Police body camera recordings earlier made public showed officers using explosives to blast through the door of a 32nd-floor hotel suite to find Paddock dead on the floor from a self-inflicted gunshot. Assault-style weapons fitted with rapid-fire "bump stock" devices were strewn about the room.

Officers found several laptops, including at least one that was missing a hard drive, the report said.

Eric Paddock told investigators that he believed his brother had cheated on the family's tax preparation. Eric was worried he might be implicated for tax evasion if evidence was collected from his brother's hard drives, the report said.

The FBI is expected to release its final investigative report, including a psychological profile of the gunman, later this year, Lombardo said, noting that authorities want to leave "no stone unturned."

The police department is conducting internal reviews into individual officers' actions, including one veteran officer who froze in a hallway a floor below where Paddock was firing onto the crowd of 22,000 country music fans.

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Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ, Andy Barron/RGJ

Images from the action surrounding Stephen Paddock's Reno house in the Somersett neighborhood on Monday Oct. 2, 2017. Paddock opened fire on a crowd at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, killing 59 people and injuring 527. RGJ, Andy Barron/RGJ

Another officer accidentally fired a rifle during a blast to breach a locked door in Paddock's room. Police said no one was injured and the shot did not hit Paddock.

Officials have said the attack had no link to terrorism, but hotel owner MGM Resorts International last month invoked a federal law enacted after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The company sued hundreds of survivors or families of slain victims, asking federal courts to qualify the shooting as an act of terrorism and declare the company has no liability.
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Balsamo reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Regina Garcia Cano in Las Vegas contributed to this report.